Fear not the solution is near!

Download the Mozex extention, it will enable you to edit textareas in your favorite editor.

Here is how to do it:

On my mac the preference window for this extention is “abit broken” but still usable. Go to the second tab and enter the following in “Text Editor”

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/Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/Resources/mate -w %t

Assign a cool hotkey (I use meta e) and you are done :-)

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